Six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will find herself back in the awards conversation again in 2024. The actress, whose most recent Academy Award nomination came in 2019 for the film “Vice,” stars in the new movie “Nightbitch” from writer-director Marielle Heller (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”). On Friday, Searchlight set “Nightbitch” on its release calendar for December 6.
Based on the book by Rachel Yoder, “Nightbitch” is about a woman who “pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.” Amazon provides a more detailed description of Yoder’s novel, for those who are interested:
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler’s demands, only to discover...
Based on the book by Rachel Yoder, “Nightbitch” is about a woman who “pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.” Amazon provides a more detailed description of Yoder’s novel, for those who are interested:
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler’s demands, only to discover...
- 4/5/2024
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Thinking of applying to our 2024 Episodic Directing Intensive? The non-Member deadline to apply is coming up: Monday, March 4. In this special guest post, we asked 2022 participant and Project Involve Fellow Winter Dunn to share her experiences. Lights, camera, action!
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For anyone who’s made the leap to the City of Angels from somewhere else, the road can be quite a solitary one. I made my way here from New York armed with a Theater degree and a burning desire to bring to life the stories that danced in my imagination. The looming question for me was whether others would connect with the vivid images I was so passionate about, and if I’d ever find the right collaborators to turn my internal cinematic visions into external reality. In the midst of this uncertainty, I crossed paths with Film Independent, and from that point forward, my journey took a whole new turn.
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For anyone who’s made the leap to the City of Angels from somewhere else, the road can be quite a solitary one. I made my way here from New York armed with a Theater degree and a burning desire to bring to life the stories that danced in my imagination. The looming question for me was whether others would connect with the vivid images I was so passionate about, and if I’d ever find the right collaborators to turn my internal cinematic visions into external reality. In the midst of this uncertainty, I crossed paths with Film Independent, and from that point forward, my journey took a whole new turn.
- 2/22/2024
- by Winter Dunn
- Film Independent News & More
Within the last decade, Mark Ruffalo has collected many film and TV acting trophies – including an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and three SAG Awards – but has yet to win the favor of the Critics Choice Association despite receiving numerous nominations from them across multiple categories. Although he has had the least luck in their Best Supporting Actor contests, his inclusion in 2024’s could finally lead to a positive outcome. Either way, the “Poor Things” cast member will at least finish this awards season having made history as the first man to ever compete for this featured performance prize four times.
On his previous three Best Supporting Actor bids for “The Kids Are All Right” (2011), “Foxcatcher” (2015), and “Spotlight” (2016), Ruffalo was respectively bested by Christian Bale (“The Fighter”), J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), and Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”). The eight-year gap between his two most recent notices is one of the largest in this category’s history,...
On his previous three Best Supporting Actor bids for “The Kids Are All Right” (2011), “Foxcatcher” (2015), and “Spotlight” (2016), Ruffalo was respectively bested by Christian Bale (“The Fighter”), J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), and Sylvester Stallone (“Creed”). The eight-year gap between his two most recent notices is one of the largest in this category’s history,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Actor Amy Adams once unwittingly snatched a role from Million Dollar Baby star Hilary Swank. But the two didn’t know this about each other until they happened to be interviewed together.
Hilary Swank awkwardly found out Amy Adams was given a role that she wanted London, England – February 10: Amy Adams attends the Ee Amy Adams | Mike Marsland/WireImage
Actors usually have no hard feelings towards other performers who might be offered a role they couldn’t win. But discovering that Adams nabbed a movie that the Oscar-winner had her heart set on made for a humorous, albeit slightly uncomfortable conversation between the two.
The pair offered their own unique insight into the film industry in The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors roundtable. They opened up alongside other actors like Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman about their journeys through the film industry.
During the roundtable, the actors began to discuss...
Hilary Swank awkwardly found out Amy Adams was given a role that she wanted London, England – February 10: Amy Adams attends the Ee Amy Adams | Mike Marsland/WireImage
Actors usually have no hard feelings towards other performers who might be offered a role they couldn’t win. But discovering that Adams nabbed a movie that the Oscar-winner had her heart set on made for a humorous, albeit slightly uncomfortable conversation between the two.
The pair offered their own unique insight into the film industry in The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors roundtable. They opened up alongside other actors like Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman about their journeys through the film industry.
During the roundtable, the actors began to discuss...
- 11/12/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of the Moving Image
Reverse Shot celebrates its 20th anniversary with a months-long programming run, starting this weekend with Demonlover, Femme Fatale, Summer Hours, and Junebug all on 35mm; Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett plays on 35mm.
Paris Theater
The Paris has reopened with 35mm screenings of The Conversation, There Will Be Blood, and The Tree of Life, as well as Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm.
Roxy Cinema
Ahead of The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s feature debut Sexy Beast plays on 35mm; Dog Day Afternoon, The Graduate, and Fantastic Planet also show on prints.
Film Forum
A new 4K restoration of Farewell, My Concubine begins; Michael Roemer’s great The Plot Against Harry screens on 35mm; Contempt continues in a 4K restoration; The Secret Garden plays on Sunday
IFC Center
The new restoration of Shinji Somai’s Typhoon...
Museum of the Moving Image
Reverse Shot celebrates its 20th anniversary with a months-long programming run, starting this weekend with Demonlover, Femme Fatale, Summer Hours, and Junebug all on 35mm; Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett plays on 35mm.
Paris Theater
The Paris has reopened with 35mm screenings of The Conversation, There Will Be Blood, and The Tree of Life, as well as Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm.
Roxy Cinema
Ahead of The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s feature debut Sexy Beast plays on 35mm; Dog Day Afternoon, The Graduate, and Fantastic Planet also show on prints.
Film Forum
A new 4K restoration of Farewell, My Concubine begins; Michael Roemer’s great The Plot Against Harry screens on 35mm; Contempt continues in a 4K restoration; The Secret Garden plays on Sunday
IFC Center
The new restoration of Shinji Somai’s Typhoon...
- 9/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Amy Adams has earned two Golden Globe Awards (from eight nominations), won a Screen Actors Guild Award (also from nine nominations) and has been nominated for six Academy Awards. Those nominations have been for “Junebug” (2005), “Doubt” (2008), “The Fighter” (2010), “The Master” (2012), “American Hustle” (2013) and “Vice” (2018). She’s also competed at the Emmys for “Sharp Objects.”
Let’s take a tour in our photo gallery of her 16 greatest movie performances, ranked from worst to best.
Let’s take a tour in our photo gallery of her 16 greatest movie performances, ranked from worst to best.
- 8/12/2023
- by Tom O'Brien, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
The Academy Awards ceremony considered actor Amy Adams a potential candidate for an Oscar ever since her breakthrough role in Junebug. But Adams lost her first opportunity to take home the prize to Rachel Weisz.
It was a loss Adams was more than happy to accept in hindsight.
Amy Adams wanted to perform in ballet before she became an actor Amy Adams | Momodu Mansaray/WireImage
Acting has been a profession that has served Adams well over the years. Before setting out to become a film star, Adams tried her hand at dancing first. This disappointed her parents at the time as Adams was a talented athlete in her high school years. Adams’ parents thought she could’ve used her athletic gifts to obtain a college scholarship. But their daughter had her heart set on being a ballerina.
But soon Adams felt she wasn’t skilled enough in dancing to make...
It was a loss Adams was more than happy to accept in hindsight.
Amy Adams wanted to perform in ballet before she became an actor Amy Adams | Momodu Mansaray/WireImage
Acting has been a profession that has served Adams well over the years. Before setting out to become a film star, Adams tried her hand at dancing first. This disappointed her parents at the time as Adams was a talented athlete in her high school years. Adams’ parents thought she could’ve used her athletic gifts to obtain a college scholarship. But their daughter had her heart set on being a ballerina.
But soon Adams felt she wasn’t skilled enough in dancing to make...
- 5/3/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Kristen Stewart once teamed up with Man of Steel star Amy Adams for the small independent feature On the Road. But perhaps unbeknownst to Stewart at the time, Adams was cautious about being around the Twilight alum.
Kristen Stewart once shared she’s had a crush on Amy Adams since working with her Amy Adams | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Stewart and Adams both had pleasant things to say about each other when it came to collaborating for On the Road. Working with the superstar made Stewart an even bigger fan of Adams than perhaps she already was. So much so that Stewart ranked her right up there with some of her favorite celebrity crushes.
“I used to have a huge thing for Harrison Ford,” Stewart once told W (via Digital Spy). “And Amy Adams, man, she’s my favourite actress. I have a total crush on her because I got to...
Kristen Stewart once shared she’s had a crush on Amy Adams since working with her Amy Adams | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Stewart and Adams both had pleasant things to say about each other when it came to collaborating for On the Road. Working with the superstar made Stewart an even bigger fan of Adams than perhaps she already was. So much so that Stewart ranked her right up there with some of her favorite celebrity crushes.
“I used to have a huge thing for Harrison Ford,” Stewart once told W (via Digital Spy). “And Amy Adams, man, she’s my favourite actress. I have a total crush on her because I got to...
- 4/14/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
With a sequel series now available on Netflix, That ’70s Show has been back under the spotlight in 2023. The TV show produced many notable stars in its main cast, but going back and watching those old episodes has revealed some major guest stars. The kind who was vastly underrated back when the series was still airing.
One of the most famous, Amy Adams, is the perfect example of why no job is too small to take. Her career began with one-off sitcom appearances, and now she has six Academy Award nominations to her name. But was that evident when she appeared on That ’70s Show?
Amy Adams was a guest star on ‘That ’70s Show’ early in her career (Clockwise from top) Topher Grace as Eric, Wilmer Valderrama as Fez, Lisa Robin Kelly as Laurie, Ashton Kutcher as Kelso, Mila Kunis as Jackie, Danny Masterson as Hyde and Laura Prepon...
One of the most famous, Amy Adams, is the perfect example of why no job is too small to take. Her career began with one-off sitcom appearances, and now she has six Academy Award nominations to her name. But was that evident when she appeared on That ’70s Show?
Amy Adams was a guest star on ‘That ’70s Show’ early in her career (Clockwise from top) Topher Grace as Eric, Wilmer Valderrama as Fez, Lisa Robin Kelly as Laurie, Ashton Kutcher as Kelso, Mila Kunis as Jackie, Danny Masterson as Hyde and Laura Prepon...
- 2/24/2023
- by Agustin Mojica
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sony Pictures Classics has made many wise investments at the Sundance Film Festival over the years. Its 2022 acquisition, “Living,” just nabbed Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Bill Nighy, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Other recent Sundance titles propelled to the Oscars by the studio include “The Father” (2020), “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Whiplash” (2014) and “An Education” (2009). Amy Adams’ very first career bid came for “Junebug,” which the distributor picked up from Park City in 2005. That film’s writer, Angus MacLachlan, is the director of “A Little Prayer,” one of Sony Pictures Classics’ 2023 festival purchases (the other being Audience Award winner “The Persian Version”).
Starring David Strathairn as Bill Brass, the movie is about a soft-spoken North Carolina family man who, per official synopsis, “tests the limits of patriarchal interference” after discovering that his son, David (Will Pullen), has been having an extramarital affair. In breach of Southern hospitality, which prescribes minding one’s own affairs,...
Starring David Strathairn as Bill Brass, the movie is about a soft-spoken North Carolina family man who, per official synopsis, “tests the limits of patriarchal interference” after discovering that his son, David (Will Pullen), has been having an extramarital affair. In breach of Southern hospitality, which prescribes minding one’s own affairs,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
When it comes to winning an Oscar, the key is usually a good narrative.
The young upstart bursting onto the scene with a sparkling debut performance. The faded star staging an unlikely comeback. The hell-bent Method actor transforming themselves completely in service of their craft.
While the decision of who wins is often down to the arbitrary notion of “momentum” and whoever ran the most effusive behind-the-scenes campaign, many talented actors have often found themselves falling just short – losing out to a more romantic narrative.
Sometimes, actors have accrued a whole handful of Oscar nominations without ever once winning.
For every serial winner like Daniel Day-Lewis or Frances McDormand, there’s a Willem Dafoe or Glenn Close: great actors who haven’t yet been given their due by the Academy.
Here’s a breakdown of all the living actors who have been nominated multiple times – but have never taken home an award.
The young upstart bursting onto the scene with a sparkling debut performance. The faded star staging an unlikely comeback. The hell-bent Method actor transforming themselves completely in service of their craft.
While the decision of who wins is often down to the arbitrary notion of “momentum” and whoever ran the most effusive behind-the-scenes campaign, many talented actors have often found themselves falling just short – losing out to a more romantic narrative.
Sometimes, actors have accrued a whole handful of Oscar nominations without ever once winning.
For every serial winner like Daniel Day-Lewis or Frances McDormand, there’s a Willem Dafoe or Glenn Close: great actors who haven’t yet been given their due by the Academy.
Here’s a breakdown of all the living actors who have been nominated multiple times – but have never taken home an award.
- 2/5/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
When it comes to winning an Oscar, the key is usually a good narrative.
The young upstart bursting onto the scene with a sparkling debut performance. The faded star staging an unlikely comeback. The hell-bent Method actor transforming themselves completely in service of their craft.
While the decision of who wins is often down to the arbitrary notion of “momentum” and whoever ran the most effusive behind-the-scenes campaign, many talented actors have often found themselves falling just short – losing out to a more romantic narrative.
Sometimes, actors have accrued a whole handful of Oscar nominations without ever once winning.
For every serial winner like Daniel Day-Lewis or Frances McDormand, there’s a Willem Dafoe or Glenn Close: great actors who haven’t yet been given their due by the Academy.
Here’s a breakdown of all the living actors who have been nominated multiple times – but have never taken home an award.
The young upstart bursting onto the scene with a sparkling debut performance. The faded star staging an unlikely comeback. The hell-bent Method actor transforming themselves completely in service of their craft.
While the decision of who wins is often down to the arbitrary notion of “momentum” and whoever ran the most effusive behind-the-scenes campaign, many talented actors have often found themselves falling just short – losing out to a more romantic narrative.
Sometimes, actors have accrued a whole handful of Oscar nominations without ever once winning.
For every serial winner like Daniel Day-Lewis or Frances McDormand, there’s a Willem Dafoe or Glenn Close: great actors who haven’t yet been given their due by the Academy.
Here’s a breakdown of all the living actors who have been nominated multiple times – but have never taken home an award.
- 2/5/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
Actor Amy Adams has put in a lot of effort to obtain the Hollywood career that she currently enjoys. But even after all of her success, there was one film she starred in that made the actor reevaluate her position in life.
Amy Adams was unhappy as an actor before her breakthrough role Amy Adams | Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Acting had always been a passion for Adams from a young age. The Man of Steel star honed her talents in the arts doing musical theater. But eventually she decided to go to Los Angeles on a whim after doing one of her first features.
“I worked on a film, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and I had a really good time. It coincided with a pulled muscle, and I was tired from eight shows a week. So I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll go to L.A. for a little while and see how it goes,...
Amy Adams was unhappy as an actor before her breakthrough role Amy Adams | Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Acting had always been a passion for Adams from a young age. The Man of Steel star honed her talents in the arts doing musical theater. But eventually she decided to go to Los Angeles on a whim after doing one of her first features.
“I worked on a film, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and I had a really good time. It coincided with a pulled muscle, and I was tired from eight shows a week. So I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll go to L.A. for a little while and see how it goes,...
- 2/4/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the quiet, peaceful mornings that ease your way into writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, a woman belts out gospel songs that echo down the block. They’re a bleary-eyed nuisance to many waking in this small, North Carolina neighborhood, but Bill Brass (David Straitharn) and his daughter-in-law Tammy (Jane Levy) have a mutual fascination with them, rising early with curiosity and wonder. Why does she sing them? Where do they come from exactly? The pair eventually attempt to investigate their leafy streets to find the source, yet as the spirituals dissipate and leave them alone in bird-chirping silence, they seem to revel in their beautiful, unsolved mystery.
Their unusual bond carries the movie’s spirit like a warm breeze, a comforting and centering presence as Bill, a Vietnam veteran, navigates his family’s dysfunction and reckons with his parenting past. Like Junebug, MacLachlan’s feature writing debut...
Their unusual bond carries the movie’s spirit like a warm breeze, a comforting and centering presence as Bill, a Vietnam veteran, navigates his family’s dysfunction and reckons with his parenting past. Like Junebug, MacLachlan’s feature writing debut...
- 1/31/2023
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Poet-turned-filmmaker Raven Jackson uses elegantly composed vignettes, minimal dialogue and an immersive style to explore the life of a Black woman in the rural South in her eloquent feature, produced by Barry Jenkins. The story follows Mack (Charleen McClure) across several decades, the fragments of her life coming together in a risky, beautifully realized film. — Caryn James
Cassandro
Gael García Bernal nails his best role in years as groundbreaking lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, his performance steeped in cheeky humor, resilience and radical self-belief — not to mention some amazingly nimble moves. Roger Ross Williams’ assured narrative is an exhilarating exploration of fearless queer identity in a macho environment. — David Rooney
The Deepest Breath
Filled with eye-popping visuals, thrilling competitions and a deftly presented love story, Laura McGann’s documentary feature tells of a record-breaking free diver and a heroic safety diver whose lives intersect.
Poet-turned-filmmaker Raven Jackson uses elegantly composed vignettes, minimal dialogue and an immersive style to explore the life of a Black woman in the rural South in her eloquent feature, produced by Barry Jenkins. The story follows Mack (Charleen McClure) across several decades, the fragments of her life coming together in a risky, beautifully realized film. — Caryn James
Cassandro
Gael García Bernal nails his best role in years as groundbreaking lucha libre wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, his performance steeped in cheeky humor, resilience and radical self-belief — not to mention some amazingly nimble moves. Roger Ross Williams’ assured narrative is an exhilarating exploration of fearless queer identity in a macho environment. — David Rooney
The Deepest Breath
Filled with eye-popping visuals, thrilling competitions and a deftly presented love story, Laura McGann’s documentary feature tells of a record-breaking free diver and a heroic safety diver whose lives intersect.
- 1/28/2023
- by David Rooney, Sheri Linden, Lovia Gyarkye, Jon Frosch, Daniel Fienberg, Robyn Bahr and Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Drama reunites distributor with Junebug screenwriter.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights in Sundance to Angus MacLachlan’s Premieres selection A Little Prayer.
David Strathairn, Jane Levy, Dascha Polanco, Will Pullen, Anna Camp, and Celia Weston star in the drama about a man who tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers his son is having an affair.
The film touches on themes such as the changing South, a woman’s agency over her own body, Ptsd, and the limits of patriarchal control. MacLachlan produced with Lauren Vilchik and Max A. Butler.
A Little Prayer reunites Sony Classics with MacLachlan,...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights in Sundance to Angus MacLachlan’s Premieres selection A Little Prayer.
David Strathairn, Jane Levy, Dascha Polanco, Will Pullen, Anna Camp, and Celia Weston star in the drama about a man who tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers his son is having an affair.
The film touches on themes such as the changing South, a woman’s agency over her own body, Ptsd, and the limits of patriarchal control. MacLachlan produced with Lauren Vilchik and Max A. Butler.
A Little Prayer reunites Sony Classics with MacLachlan,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
If you love “Junebug,” the 2005 indie that launched Amy Adams’ career, then you probably felt at the time as film critic Jan Stuart did. He’s quoted on the poster as saying, “It is only a matter of time before [director] Phil Morrison achieves the status of Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant, and Woody Allen.” Well, that prediction never really came to pass. Morrison made one more feature, then turned his attention to commercials. Meanwhile, the film’s screenwriter, Angus MacLachlan, has slowly but surely emerged as an auteur of authentic stories representing the American South.
MacLachlan’s third film as director (and the first to be selected for Sundance featuring him in that role), “A Little Prayer” shares much of the sensibility — and sensitivity — that made “Junebug” so special. Once again, he’s written a modestly scaled but deep-reaching relationship drama about a white middle-class North Carolina family that believes in God,...
MacLachlan’s third film as director (and the first to be selected for Sundance featuring him in that role), “A Little Prayer” shares much of the sensibility — and sensitivity — that made “Junebug” so special. Once again, he’s written a modestly scaled but deep-reaching relationship drama about a white middle-class North Carolina family that believes in God,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Following a glowing reception in its premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Sony has acquired worldwide rights to the drama “A Little Prayer,” an individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap. While specifics of the deal haven’t been disclosed, it’s said to be in the 7 figure range.
Playwright and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan directed and scripted the film. MacLachlan is most known for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film “Junebug,” and the cult short film “Tater Tomater.”
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‘A Little Prayer’ Review: David Strathairn Shines as Conflicted Patriarch in Thoughtful Family Drama
“A Little Prayer,” stars David Straithairn (Bill) Celia Weston, (Venida), and Will Pullen, (David “Dickson). The film centers on three generations of a North Carolina family, their sheet metal business, a father and son who are both military veterans, and the women in their lives.
Lauren Vilchik, Max Butler, and Angus produced. Ramin Bahrani is an executive producer,...
Playwright and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan directed and scripted the film. MacLachlan is most known for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film “Junebug,” and the cult short film “Tater Tomater.”
Also Read:
‘A Little Prayer’ Review: David Strathairn Shines as Conflicted Patriarch in Thoughtful Family Drama
“A Little Prayer,” stars David Straithairn (Bill) Celia Weston, (Venida), and Will Pullen, (David “Dickson). The film centers on three generations of a North Carolina family, their sheet metal business, a father and son who are both military veterans, and the women in their lives.
Lauren Vilchik, Max Butler, and Angus produced. Ramin Bahrani is an executive producer,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Joshua Vinson
- The Wrap
Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed worldwide rights to “A Little Prayer” following its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The exact sales price isn’t clear, but sources state the film fetched a figure in the low seven-figure range.
The deal reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Angus MacLachlan, who wrote the screenplay for “Junebug,” which the indie label released. MacLachlan directs this film, in addition to writing the script. WME Independent brokered the sale.
“A Little Prayer” follows Tammy (Jane Levy) and David (Will Pullen), a married couple in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who share home with David’s parents, Bill (David Strathairn) and Venida (Celia Weston). Things grow complicated after Bill starts to think that David is cheating on Tammy.
Critics seemed to like the film, giving particular praise to the performances. The Hollywood Reporter’s Sheri Linden wrote, “Most of the characters in this open-ended and cautiously...
The deal reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Angus MacLachlan, who wrote the screenplay for “Junebug,” which the indie label released. MacLachlan directs this film, in addition to writing the script. WME Independent brokered the sale.
“A Little Prayer” follows Tammy (Jane Levy) and David (Will Pullen), a married couple in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who share home with David’s parents, Bill (David Strathairn) and Venida (Celia Weston). Things grow complicated after Bill starts to think that David is cheating on Tammy.
Critics seemed to like the film, giving particular praise to the performances. The Hollywood Reporter’s Sheri Linden wrote, “Most of the characters in this open-ended and cautiously...
- 1/25/2023
- by Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Sundance Film Festival deals keep dropping. Sony Pictures Classics has landed worldwide rights to A Little Prayer, which premiered at the Ray yesterday in the US Dramatic Competition category. The film is directed and scripted by Angus MacLachlan, who scripted Junebug.
Tammy (Jane Levy) and husband David (Will Pullen) lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill (David Strathairn) and Venida (Celia Weston). David and Bill work together and have always been closely involved in each other’s lives. When Bill begins to suspect that David is straying in his marriage, he is drawn into a relationship minefield, caught between wanting to protect his amicable daughter-in-law and trying to understand his impulsive son. As Bill confronts the limits of patriarchal influence, he is also forced to reckon with disheartening behavioral patterns that may be transcending generations.
The film is produced...
Tammy (Jane Levy) and husband David (Will Pullen) lead a quiet life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sharing a home with David’s parents, Bill (David Strathairn) and Venida (Celia Weston). David and Bill work together and have always been closely involved in each other’s lives. When Bill begins to suspect that David is straying in his marriage, he is drawn into a relationship minefield, caught between wanting to protect his amicable daughter-in-law and trying to understand his impulsive son. As Bill confronts the limits of patriarchal influence, he is also forced to reckon with disheartening behavioral patterns that may be transcending generations.
The film is produced...
- 1/25/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
As A Little Prayer begins, the voice of an unseen singer floats into the still morning air of a strikingly leafy neighborhood. The spirituals she belts, heard a few times during this quiet drama, take on the role of a disembodied character, sparking responses from the other characters that help to define who they are. Some hear only noise, an intrusion, something to complain about. But for Bill and his daughter-in-law, Tammy, searching souls beautifully played by David Strathairn and Jane Levy, the songs are enchanting, a mystery to savor.
Bill and Tammy are, as she puts it, kindred spirits, but that’s not to say they’re fully in sync. Their bond is the heart of writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s understated film, yet so too is the gap between what Bill wants to believe and the way things are. At the helm of his third feature, after Goodbye to All That...
Bill and Tammy are, as she puts it, kindred spirits, but that’s not to say they’re fully in sync. Their bond is the heart of writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s understated film, yet so too is the gap between what Bill wants to believe and the way things are. At the helm of his third feature, after Goodbye to All That...
- 1/24/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘A Little Prayer’ Review: David Strathairn Shines as Conflicted Patriarch in Thoughtful Family Drama
In the right role, David Straithairn is one of those actors as inescapably real as your morning bedhead, the creak in your floorboards and the seasoning of a thousand meals coating your cast-iron skillet.
In the right role, he’s almost a centralizing force of authenticity, which is certainly the case with writer-director Angus MacLachalan’s wonderful, heartfelt “A Little Prayer,” a small-scale family drama about the anxiety that arises when children aren’t children anymore and parenting becomes a consciously risky meddling.
MacLachalan, best known for writing the lived-in Southern charmer “Junebug,” is on his third go-round directing one of his unflashy, breezily thorny character studies built on details of sincerity, agitation and humor in families. Here, he’s inside three generations of a North Carolina clan with a sheet-metal business, marked by a father and son who have been to war, and women who have a lot on...
In the right role, he’s almost a centralizing force of authenticity, which is certainly the case with writer-director Angus MacLachalan’s wonderful, heartfelt “A Little Prayer,” a small-scale family drama about the anxiety that arises when children aren’t children anymore and parenting becomes a consciously risky meddling.
MacLachalan, best known for writing the lived-in Southern charmer “Junebug,” is on his third go-round directing one of his unflashy, breezily thorny character studies built on details of sincerity, agitation and humor in families. Here, he’s inside three generations of a North Carolina clan with a sheet-metal business, marked by a father and son who have been to war, and women who have a lot on...
- 1/24/2023
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Angus MacLachlan wrote 2005’s terrific indie Junebug, which put Amy Adams on the big-time map and earned her a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in a heartbreaking performance. It also put MacLachlan on the map with his first screenplay, and it was an auspicious start. Since then he has added directing to his credits including Goodbye to All and Abundant Acreage Available but tonight returned to the Sundance Film Festival with his latest, A Little Prayer, shot and set in his hometown of Winston-Salem, Nc.
Perhaps the kind of small indie that defines the term “Sundance movie,” A Little Prayer is largely a showcase for an exceptionally talented cast who make up the troubled family in this tale. It drifts into some soapy territory before it is over but is rescued by some fine acting, even if at times it feels more like a TV production than a gritty independent film,...
Perhaps the kind of small indie that defines the term “Sundance movie,” A Little Prayer is largely a showcase for an exceptionally talented cast who make up the troubled family in this tale. It drifts into some soapy territory before it is over but is rescued by some fine acting, even if at times it feels more like a TV production than a gritty independent film,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Angus MacLachlan burst onto the Sundance scene as the screenwriter behind the Phil Morrison-directed “Junebug” in 2005. That drama is best known for what became a star-making performance from then-unknown Amy Adams and since then MacLachlan graduated to directing self-written features like “Goodbye to All That” and “Abundant Acreage Available.”
His latest feature, “A Little Prayer,” concerns a close-knit family that threatens to collapse when a father (David Strathairn) discovers that his adult son (Will Pullen) may be having an affair.
MacLachlan was joined by Pullen and fellow cast members Jane Levy and Celia Weston, at TheWrap’s Portrait and Video Studio at The Music Lodge for a conversation with Executive Awards Editor Steve Pond.
When asked why he chose to make another family drama set in North Carolina, MacLachlan noted it was the region in which he grew up.
“I started [this film] when my daughter was 15. She’s now 21. I realized in retrospect,...
His latest feature, “A Little Prayer,” concerns a close-knit family that threatens to collapse when a father (David Strathairn) discovers that his adult son (Will Pullen) may be having an affair.
MacLachlan was joined by Pullen and fellow cast members Jane Levy and Celia Weston, at TheWrap’s Portrait and Video Studio at The Music Lodge for a conversation with Executive Awards Editor Steve Pond.
When asked why he chose to make another family drama set in North Carolina, MacLachlan noted it was the region in which he grew up.
“I started [this film] when my daughter was 15. She’s now 21. I realized in retrospect,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Sundance’s return to in person events after two years due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been much celebrated since the annual festival kicked off on Jan. 19 in Park City, Utah.
But the 2023 iteration isn’t just an exciting return for the organizers or attendees. For A Little Prayer producer Ramin Bahrani, it’s been a “wonderful” experience following his appearance at last year’s virtual festival, which featured a premiere screening of his documentary 2nd Chance, about Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest.
It’s a movie the Oscar-nominated Bahrani, who is also behind The White Tiger and 99 Holmes, acknowledges has a thematic overlap with director Angus MacLachlan’s film in its examination of men and larger social issues. “For A Little Prayer, I’m thrilled that Angus and his team will enjoy an in-person festival because the humor and emotional ending of his film...
But the 2023 iteration isn’t just an exciting return for the organizers or attendees. For A Little Prayer producer Ramin Bahrani, it’s been a “wonderful” experience following his appearance at last year’s virtual festival, which featured a premiere screening of his documentary 2nd Chance, about Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest.
It’s a movie the Oscar-nominated Bahrani, who is also behind The White Tiger and 99 Holmes, acknowledges has a thematic overlap with director Angus MacLachlan’s film in its examination of men and larger social issues. “For A Little Prayer, I’m thrilled that Angus and his team will enjoy an in-person festival because the humor and emotional ending of his film...
- 1/23/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ben McKenzie has been cast in Bess Wohl’s Broadway-Bound Grand Horizons, joining the previously announced Jane Alexander and James Cromwell, among others.
The strictly limited 10-week engagement begins previews Dec. 23, officially opening on January 23, 2020 at The Hayes Theater. Today’s announcement was made by producer Second Stage Theater.
Also previously announced were Priscilla Lopez, Maulik Pancholy, Ashley Park and Michael Urie. Leigh Silverman directs.
McKenzie most recently portrayed Det. James Gordon on Fox’s Gotham, which just wrapped its five-season run. The actor first came to public attention in The O.C.; other credits include Southland and Junebug. He was last seen on stage in The Glass Menagerie at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Wohl’s new play chronicles the family of long-married couple Bill and Nancy, who have been together for 50 years when Nancy decides she wants out, shocking the couple’s two adult sons and...
The strictly limited 10-week engagement begins previews Dec. 23, officially opening on January 23, 2020 at The Hayes Theater. Today’s announcement was made by producer Second Stage Theater.
Also previously announced were Priscilla Lopez, Maulik Pancholy, Ashley Park and Michael Urie. Leigh Silverman directs.
McKenzie most recently portrayed Det. James Gordon on Fox’s Gotham, which just wrapped its five-season run. The actor first came to public attention in The O.C.; other credits include Southland and Junebug. He was last seen on stage in The Glass Menagerie at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Wohl’s new play chronicles the family of long-married couple Bill and Nancy, who have been together for 50 years when Nancy decides she wants out, shocking the couple’s two adult sons and...
- 11/12/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ethan Hawke and Alessandro Nivola are teaming up in “Satan Is Real,” the story of the Louvin brothers. The real-life best friends will portray Charlie and Ira Louvin, influential country musicians whose relationship is forged by love, hate, jealousy, and alcohol.
In an interview with Variety, Hawke and Nivola said they hoped to achieve a music term called “blood harmony” in their performances. It’s a term that describes the kind of harmonizing that can be achieved when family members sing together, because their genetic link allows them to share the same tone in their voice.
“It’s such an important expression to us,” said Hawke. “It sounds both violent and beautiful and the music should be that. It’s aggressive, it’s electric, it’s strange. It’s not Brooklyn folk rock. It’s not wannabe cool guy country. It’s hillbilly gospel music.”
The film will be directed by Phil Morrison,...
In an interview with Variety, Hawke and Nivola said they hoped to achieve a music term called “blood harmony” in their performances. It’s a term that describes the kind of harmonizing that can be achieved when family members sing together, because their genetic link allows them to share the same tone in their voice.
“It’s such an important expression to us,” said Hawke. “It sounds both violent and beautiful and the music should be that. It’s aggressive, it’s electric, it’s strange. It’s not Brooklyn folk rock. It’s not wannabe cool guy country. It’s hillbilly gospel music.”
The film will be directed by Phil Morrison,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”) and Amy Adams (“Sharp Objects”) are both Emmy contenders this year for Best Movie/Limited Series Actress. Despite their long careers on the big and small screens, this would be the first Emmy nomination for both. But this wouldn’t be the only time they celebrate a career-first together. They also received their very first Oscar nominations in the same category.
In 2005 Williams co-starred in “Brokeback Mountain” as Alma, whose husband (Heath Ledger) was secretly in love with another man (Jake Gyllenhaal). The same year Adams gave a breakthrough performance in “Junebug” as Ashley, a pregnant North Carolina woman with an unfailingly optimistic attitude. Both women earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for their roles, though they ended up losing to Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”).
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It turned out those were the first of many nominations for both actresses.
In 2005 Williams co-starred in “Brokeback Mountain” as Alma, whose husband (Heath Ledger) was secretly in love with another man (Jake Gyllenhaal). The same year Adams gave a breakthrough performance in “Junebug” as Ashley, a pregnant North Carolina woman with an unfailingly optimistic attitude. Both women earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for their roles, though they ended up losing to Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”).
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It turned out those were the first of many nominations for both actresses.
- 3/5/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
After Olivia Colman upset the heavily favored Glenn Close to win the best actress Oscar on Sunday, Close became the new record-holder among actresses for most Oscar nominations without a win.
Colman gave a gracious acceptance speech, admitting she wished the veteran actress took home the big prize: “Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long and this is not how I wanted it to be.”
Close now has seven nominations and no wins for “The Wife,” “Albert Nobbs,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “The World According to Garp,” “The Big Chill,” and “The Natural.”
Close had been tied with the late Thelma Ritter and the late Deborah Kerr for most nominations without a win, with six. On Sunday, Amy Adams joined Ritter and Kerr for having six nominations without a win following her loss for “Vice.” She was previously nominated for “Junebug,” “Doubt,” “The Fighter,” “The Master,” and “American Hustle.
Colman gave a gracious acceptance speech, admitting she wished the veteran actress took home the big prize: “Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long and this is not how I wanted it to be.”
Close now has seven nominations and no wins for “The Wife,” “Albert Nobbs,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “The World According to Garp,” “The Big Chill,” and “The Natural.”
Close had been tied with the late Thelma Ritter and the late Deborah Kerr for most nominations without a win, with six. On Sunday, Amy Adams joined Ritter and Kerr for having six nominations without a win following her loss for “Vice.” She was previously nominated for “Junebug,” “Doubt,” “The Fighter,” “The Master,” and “American Hustle.
- 2/26/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
It’s the Oscar record no one wants on their resume. With Amy Adams‘ loss at the 91st Academy Awards for “Vice,” she now ties Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter as the three actresses with six Oscar nominations and no wins. Unfortunately, Glenn Close tops them all with seven Oscar misfires; she lost on Sunday to Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”). Among male actors, Richard Burton (seven noms) and Peter O’Toole (eight bids) are the record-holders. Click through our photo gallery above for a closer look at Adams’ six Oscar nominations.
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For her role as Lynne Cheney, devoted wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Adams earned her latest bid for Best Supporting Actress. Her co-nominees this time around were Marina de Tavira (“Roma”), Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) and Rachel Weisz...
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For her role as Lynne Cheney, devoted wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Adams earned her latest bid for Best Supporting Actress. Her co-nominees this time around were Marina de Tavira (“Roma”), Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) and Rachel Weisz...
- 2/25/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
History repeats itself, and it could happen again in the Best Supporting Actress race. Thirteen years ago, Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) won the category over Amy Adams (“Junebug”), and the two are currently in a rematch for “The Favourite” and “Vice,” respectively. If Weisz prevails again, Adams would have the dubious honor of being the fifth actor to lose to the same person twice.
The first four people were:
1. Irene Dunne lost Best Actress for “Theodora Goes Wild” (1936) and “The Awful Truth” (1937) to Luise Rainer for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) and “The Good Earth” (1937)
2. Charles Boyer lost Best Actor for “Conquest” (1937) and “Algiers” (1938) to Spencer Tracy for “Captains Courageous” (1937) and “Boys Town” (1938)
3. Basil Rathbone lost Best Supporting Actor for “Romeo and Juliet” (1936) and “If I Were King” (1938) to Walter Brennan for “Come and Get It” (1936) and “Kentucky” (1938)
4. Annette Bening lost Best Actress for “American Beauty” (1999) and “Being Julia” (2004) to Hilary Swank...
The first four people were:
1. Irene Dunne lost Best Actress for “Theodora Goes Wild” (1936) and “The Awful Truth” (1937) to Luise Rainer for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) and “The Good Earth” (1937)
2. Charles Boyer lost Best Actor for “Conquest” (1937) and “Algiers” (1938) to Spencer Tracy for “Captains Courageous” (1937) and “Boys Town” (1938)
3. Basil Rathbone lost Best Supporting Actor for “Romeo and Juliet” (1936) and “If I Were King” (1938) to Walter Brennan for “Come and Get It” (1936) and “Kentucky” (1938)
4. Annette Bening lost Best Actress for “American Beauty” (1999) and “Being Julia” (2004) to Hilary Swank...
- 2/24/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Rachel Weisz is far and away the, uh, favorite to win Best Supporting Actress for “The Favourite” at Sunday’s BAFTA Awards. Per our latest predictions, Weisz has 16/5 odds to prevail and win her first career BAFTA.
Weisz was in a close race with No. 2 Amy Adams (“Vice”), but she pulled away after the Screen Actors Guild Awards following BAFTA and Oscar snubbee Emily Blunt‘s win for “A Quiet Place.” Weisz now has the support of all eight of our Experts, eight Editors and 17 of our Top 24 Users.
With Oscar frontrunner Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Mia from this race as well and “The Favourite”‘s strong nomination showing, it’s a prime opportunity for Weisz to snag a big win and emerge as the alternative to King. She’s already earned the British Independent Film Award and the London Film Critics Circle Award for her turn as Sarah Churchill.
Weisz was in a close race with No. 2 Amy Adams (“Vice”), but she pulled away after the Screen Actors Guild Awards following BAFTA and Oscar snubbee Emily Blunt‘s win for “A Quiet Place.” Weisz now has the support of all eight of our Experts, eight Editors and 17 of our Top 24 Users.
With Oscar frontrunner Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Mia from this race as well and “The Favourite”‘s strong nomination showing, it’s a prime opportunity for Weisz to snag a big win and emerge as the alternative to King. She’s already earned the British Independent Film Award and the London Film Critics Circle Award for her turn as Sarah Churchill.
- 2/7/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Playback is a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday.
Amy Adams landed her sixth nomination last week for her performance as Lynne Cheney in Adam McKay’s “Vice.” It’s quite the achievement just 14 years into her screen career, a career that essentially kicked off with Oscar recognition, for 2005’s “Junebug.” In “Vice,” she once again stars opposite Christian Bale, who is also along for the Oscar season ride (as is co-star Sam Rockwell). The film has been quite divisive however, with some critics adoring it, others deriding it. That passionate split is healthy, as Adams sees it.
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“I don’t always pay attention to reviews,” Adams says. “Sometimes I like to read one...
Amy Adams landed her sixth nomination last week for her performance as Lynne Cheney in Adam McKay’s “Vice.” It’s quite the achievement just 14 years into her screen career, a career that essentially kicked off with Oscar recognition, for 2005’s “Junebug.” In “Vice,” she once again stars opposite Christian Bale, who is also along for the Oscar season ride (as is co-star Sam Rockwell). The film has been quite divisive however, with some critics adoring it, others deriding it. That passionate split is healthy, as Adams sees it.
Listen to this week’s episode of “Playback” below. New episodes air every Thursday.
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“I don’t always pay attention to reviews,” Adams says. “Sometimes I like to read one...
- 1/31/2019
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
by Murtada Elfadl
Weisz and Adams at their first Oscars as nominees
This year marks the second time Rachel Weisz & Amy Adams have been nominated together in the supporting actress category: Weisz for The Favourite, Adams for Vice. The first time they did so was for their first nominations, thirteen years ago for The Constant Gardener and Junebug respectively. They are linked together in my mind -and possibly for some of you - because of that. Adams’ performance in Junebug is my favorite of her nominated performances and I've always said that if she had won that year we wouldn’t be talking about overdue status for years on end.
Since that time their Oscar careers have diverged...
Weisz and Adams at their first Oscars as nominees
This year marks the second time Rachel Weisz & Amy Adams have been nominated together in the supporting actress category: Weisz for The Favourite, Adams for Vice. The first time they did so was for their first nominations, thirteen years ago for The Constant Gardener and Junebug respectively. They are linked together in my mind -and possibly for some of you - because of that. Adams’ performance in Junebug is my favorite of her nominated performances and I've always said that if she had won that year we wouldn’t be talking about overdue status for years on end.
Since that time their Oscar careers have diverged...
- 1/22/2019
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
The 2019 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday, January 22 and the big winners in terms of sheer numbers were Netflix’s “Roma” and Fox Searchlight’s “The Favourite.” Both films earned 10 nominations, including all-important bids for picture, directing, screenplay and acting, in addition to dominating the various below-the-line races. Next up with eight noms apiece were Warner Bros’ “A Star Is Born” and Annapurna’s “Vice,” followed by Marvel/Disney’s “Black Panther” at seven. Scroll down for the complete film-by-film breakdown for this year’s 91st Academy Awards.
SEETop 20 Oscars snubs of movies, directors and screenwriters: ‘First Man,’ Bradley Cooper, ‘Black Panther’ script …
Alfonso Cuaron‘s semi-autobiographical film about his growing up in Mexico City is the first streaming film to be nominated for Best Picture. Cuaron himself accounts for four of the 10 nominations, as he produced, directed, wrote and shot “Roma.” Two actors made the cut with Oscar voters:...
SEETop 20 Oscars snubs of movies, directors and screenwriters: ‘First Man,’ Bradley Cooper, ‘Black Panther’ script …
Alfonso Cuaron‘s semi-autobiographical film about his growing up in Mexico City is the first streaming film to be nominated for Best Picture. Cuaron himself accounts for four of the 10 nominations, as he produced, directed, wrote and shot “Roma.” Two actors made the cut with Oscar voters:...
- 1/22/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Where does the race for Best Picture stand now that the 2019 Oscar nominations have been announced? (Check out the full list here.) “The Favourite” and “Roma” lead with 10 bids apiece, but it’s not important just to have the most nominations. You also need to have the right nominations. So which films scored bids in the races that most strongly correlate to winning the top prize? Which films got more support than we expected? And which didn’t do as well as we thought they would? Let’s get the lay of the land.
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“The Favourite” — The historical comedy was the most nominated film at the Critics’ Choice and BAFTA Awards given its showcase performances and historical production values, so it wasn’t too surprising that it also topped the Oscars’ list. But what’s crucial for the film...
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“The Favourite” — The historical comedy was the most nominated film at the Critics’ Choice and BAFTA Awards given its showcase performances and historical production values, so it wasn’t too surprising that it also topped the Oscars’ list. But what’s crucial for the film...
- 1/22/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Despite her relatively young age, Amy Adams has already earned six career Oscar nominations. On January 22, 2019 the 44-year-old actress received her latest bid for playing Lynne Cheney in the political comedy “Vice.” This marks her fifth nom in Best Supporting Actress in addition to one prior notice in Best Actress. Will Adams finally win an Academy Award this year, or will she become a six-time also-ran? Get a closer look at Adams’ six Oscar nominations by clicking through our photo gallery above.
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“Junebug” (2005) — Adams started down her Oscar road with the indie film “Junebug.” In the film, she played Ashley, a chipper woman who gets pregnant with her husband in the hope of saving their marriage. Adams earned a slew of Best Supporting Actress prizes, including the Critics’ Choice Award, and scored her first Oscar nomination, the sole representative for “Junebug.
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“Junebug” (2005) — Adams started down her Oscar road with the indie film “Junebug.” In the film, she played Ashley, a chipper woman who gets pregnant with her husband in the hope of saving their marriage. Adams earned a slew of Best Supporting Actress prizes, including the Critics’ Choice Award, and scored her first Oscar nomination, the sole representative for “Junebug.
- 1/22/2019
- by Kevin Jacobsen and Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Best Supporting Actress is Regina King‘s to lose at the Critics’ Choice Awards. The “If Beale Street Could Talk” star has a commanding 4/1 odds in our predictions to add another trophy to her collection on Sunday.
And what a collection it’s been so far. The season-long frontrunner, King has nearly swept the table on the critics circuit for her quietly powerful performance in the Barry Jenkins film and just won the Golden Globe. Seven Experts, five Editors and 21 of our Top 24 users foresee a Critics’ Choice victory for her.
See Oscars scorecard: ‘Roma,’ Ethan Hawke and Regina King have racked up double digit wins at critics awards
It would be a big coup for King to win this on the heels of her Globe triumph, as she was shockingly snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild Awards and also missed at BAFTA on Wednesday; only two people have ever...
And what a collection it’s been so far. The season-long frontrunner, King has nearly swept the table on the critics circuit for her quietly powerful performance in the Barry Jenkins film and just won the Golden Globe. Seven Experts, five Editors and 21 of our Top 24 users foresee a Critics’ Choice victory for her.
See Oscars scorecard: ‘Roma,’ Ethan Hawke and Regina King have racked up double digit wins at critics awards
It would be a big coup for King to win this on the heels of her Globe triumph, as she was shockingly snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild Awards and also missed at BAFTA on Wednesday; only two people have ever...
- 1/10/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
A five-time Oscar bridesmaid is on the brink of a sixth nomination, and possibly her first win. She’s already scored double nominations at the Golden Globe and SAG Awards. It’s been thirteen years since she first caught the academy’s attention, breaking into the Supporting Actress lineup. She’s since proven herself to be a versatile talent and a box-office draw, headlining acclaimed indies and big blockbusters alike.
Is this Amy Adams this year? Or Kate Winslet exactly 10 years ago? The similarities between the two are shocking.
Let’s go back in time and review Winslet when she was still winless. After a heavenly debut in Peter Jackson’s “Heavenly Creatures” in 1994, she starred as Emma Thompson‘s younger sister in 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.” The academy had the good sense to nominate the newcomer, though she wasn’t mighty enough to overcome Mira Sorvino in “Mighty Aphrodite.
Is this Amy Adams this year? Or Kate Winslet exactly 10 years ago? The similarities between the two are shocking.
Let’s go back in time and review Winslet when she was still winless. After a heavenly debut in Peter Jackson’s “Heavenly Creatures” in 1994, she starred as Emma Thompson‘s younger sister in 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.” The academy had the good sense to nominate the newcomer, though she wasn’t mighty enough to overcome Mira Sorvino in “Mighty Aphrodite.
- 12/30/2018
- by Tariq Khan
- Gold Derby
“Vice” pairs Amy Adams and Christian Bale onscreen for the third time, but that’s not the only reunion the actress has in the film. The Dick Cheney biopic also reunites her with Steve Carell, with whom she first worked 13 years ago on “The Office.”
Dunderheads will definitely recall Adams as Katy, the episode’s titular “Hot Girl,” in the season finale of the six-episode first season, which aired in April 2005. A purse saleswoman, Katy stops by Dunder Mifflin to sell some of her merchandise and instantly finds herself being pursued by Michael (Carell) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson). Michael, who dubs Katy “Pam 6.0,” gives a reluctant Katy a tour of the office (watch above) and later offers to give her a ride home. Alas, much to his devastation, she gets a ride from Jim (John Krasinski).
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Jim and Katy start dating, and Adams appeared in two more episodes, Season...
Dunderheads will definitely recall Adams as Katy, the episode’s titular “Hot Girl,” in the season finale of the six-episode first season, which aired in April 2005. A purse saleswoman, Katy stops by Dunder Mifflin to sell some of her merchandise and instantly finds herself being pursued by Michael (Carell) and Dwight (Rainn Wilson). Michael, who dubs Katy “Pam 6.0,” gives a reluctant Katy a tour of the office (watch above) and later offers to give her a ride home. Alas, much to his devastation, she gets a ride from Jim (John Krasinski).
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Jim and Katy start dating, and Adams appeared in two more episodes, Season...
- 12/27/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Now that the Golden Globe nominations and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are out, we are one step closer to an Oscar rematch 13 years in the making: Amy Adams vs. Rachel Weisz. Back then, Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) defeated Adams (“Junebug”) in the very category they’re contending in this year, Best Supporting Actress.
“Thank you so much to the academy for this tremendous, tremendous honor,” Weisz said in her speech, before thanking her co-star Ralph Fiennes, her director Fernando Meirelles and producer Simon Channing Williams. “And of course, John le Carré, who wrote this unflinching, angry story, and he really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice. They’re greater men and women than I.”
Weisz, who was pregnant with her first child, nearly swept the season that year for her performance as Tessa Quayle, an Amnesty International activist who was murdered in Kenya,...
“Thank you so much to the academy for this tremendous, tremendous honor,” Weisz said in her speech, before thanking her co-star Ralph Fiennes, her director Fernando Meirelles and producer Simon Channing Williams. “And of course, John le Carré, who wrote this unflinching, angry story, and he really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice. They’re greater men and women than I.”
Weisz, who was pregnant with her first child, nearly swept the season that year for her performance as Tessa Quayle, an Amnesty International activist who was murdered in Kenya,...
- 12/21/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Emma Stone all got two individual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Wednesday, but can any of them turn both their bids into wins?
Only two performers have taken home two individual SAG Awards in one night: Helen Mirren and Idris Elba. Mirren won lead actress en route to her Oscar victory for “The Queen” (2006) and was honored for playing another monarch in the miniseries “Elizabeth I,” for which she later won an Emmy. Elba received SAG Awards for his supporting turn in “Beasts of No Nation” (2015) and for limited series/TV movie actor for “Luther.” He remains the only SAG champ whose performance did not receive an Oscar nomination.
Adams (“Vice”), Blunt (“A Quiet Place”) and Stone (“The Favourite”) are up against each other in the film supporting actress race. They all got a windfall when critical favorite and Oscar frontrunner Regina King (“If...
Only two performers have taken home two individual SAG Awards in one night: Helen Mirren and Idris Elba. Mirren won lead actress en route to her Oscar victory for “The Queen” (2006) and was honored for playing another monarch in the miniseries “Elizabeth I,” for which she later won an Emmy. Elba received SAG Awards for his supporting turn in “Beasts of No Nation” (2015) and for limited series/TV movie actor for “Luther.” He remains the only SAG champ whose performance did not receive an Oscar nomination.
Adams (“Vice”), Blunt (“A Quiet Place”) and Stone (“The Favourite”) are up against each other in the film supporting actress race. They all got a windfall when critical favorite and Oscar frontrunner Regina King (“If...
- 12/14/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
This year, the San Francisco Film Society’s (Sffilm) annual awards night will unfold December 3 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Center with honorees including Oscar hopefuls Amy Adams (Annapurna’s “Vice”), Steve McQueen (Fox’s “Widows”) and Bay area rising star Boots Riley (Annapurna’s “Sorry to Bother You”). The annual celebration honors achievement in filmmaking craft – it’s also a fundraiser that benefits Sffilm’s youth education programs.
Amy Adams will be on hand to accept the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley will take home the Kanbar Award for Storytelling.
“These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area,” stated Sffilm Executive Director Noah Cowan, “in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and...
Amy Adams will be on hand to accept the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley will take home the Kanbar Award for Storytelling.
“These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area,” stated Sffilm Executive Director Noah Cowan, “in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and...
- 11/13/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
This year, the San Francisco Film Society’s (Sffilm) annual awards night will unfold December 3 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Center with honorees including Oscar hopefuls Amy Adams (Annapurna’s “Vice”), Steve McQueen (Fox’s “Widows”) and Bay area rising star Boots Riley (Annapurna’s “Sorry to Bother You”). The annual celebration honors achievement in filmmaking craft – it’s also a fundraiser that benefits Sffilm’s youth education programs.
Amy Adams will be on hand to accept the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley will take home the Kanbar Award for Storytelling.
“These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area,” stated Sffilm Executive Director Noah Cowan, “in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and...
Amy Adams will be on hand to accept the Peter J. Owens Award for Acting; Steve McQueen will receive the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction; and emerging breakthrough talent Boots Riley will take home the Kanbar Award for Storytelling.
“These artists were selected because their work embodies the values of the Bay Area,” stated Sffilm Executive Director Noah Cowan, “in particular their role in championing innovative cinema, making the industry more diverse and inclusive, and...
- 11/13/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Alessandro Nivola looks like a conventionally handsome leading man, but has largely had the career of a character actor so far — something that may factor in his being relatively under-sung for an impressive screen résumé stretching back two decades now. That, and the fact that he’s often most effective as the quiet, watchful center around which more histrionic characters revolve (whether they know it or not) in indies such as “Junebug” and the recent “Disobedience.” They’re not the types of performances that typically attract awards, yet those films would lose much of their impact without the subtle gravitas he contributes.
Nivola is just about able to pull off the same trick as the central figure in “Weightless.” But Canadian music-video and commercials veteran Jaron Albertin’s U.S.-produced first feature proves unfortunately named — despite the emotional terra firma Nivola and other cast members try to provide, this...
Nivola is just about able to pull off the same trick as the central figure in “Weightless.” But Canadian music-video and commercials veteran Jaron Albertin’s U.S.-produced first feature proves unfortunately named — despite the emotional terra firma Nivola and other cast members try to provide, this...
- 11/9/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Amy Adams will likely be contending at next year’s Primetime Emmy Awards for “Sharp Objects,” and she’s a potential Oscar contender for her supporting role in “Vice,” but she’s got a couple of stops to make in the months leading up to them. One of them is the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January. She has previously earned four individual nominations for her work in film, and she won in 2013 as a member of the ensemble of “American Hustle,” but either “Sharp Objects” or “Vice” (or both) could earn Adams her very first individual SAG victory.
In HBO’s critically-acclaimed adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2006 debut novel, Adams plays Camille Preaker, an emotionally troubled reporter who returns to her hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Helen Holmes (Observer) writes that Adams gives “an instant classic workaholic anti-hero performance reminiscent of ‘Mad Men’s’ Don Draper...
In HBO’s critically-acclaimed adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2006 debut novel, Adams plays Camille Preaker, an emotionally troubled reporter who returns to her hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Helen Holmes (Observer) writes that Adams gives “an instant classic workaholic anti-hero performance reminiscent of ‘Mad Men’s’ Don Draper...
- 10/30/2018
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
Thirteen years ago, Amy Adams received her first Oscar nomination, in Best Supporting Actress, for her breakthrough turn in “Junebug.” She lost the award to Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”), but Adams can exact her revenge this season in a rematch in the same exact category.
Both actresses are back in contention in supporting for their performances as, coincidentally, historical political figures. Adams plays former Second Lady Lynne Cheney in “Vice” opposite her “American Hustle” (2013) and “The Fighter” (2010) co-star Christian Bale as Dick Cheney. Weisz — whose surname, of course, is pronounced like “vice” — plays Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough in “The Favourite,” the right-hand woman of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) who deftly wielded her influence over the monarch’s decision-making.
Adams is currently in second place in our combined odds to win Best Supporting Actress, behind Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), while Weisz is in fifth, also trailing...
Both actresses are back in contention in supporting for their performances as, coincidentally, historical political figures. Adams plays former Second Lady Lynne Cheney in “Vice” opposite her “American Hustle” (2013) and “The Fighter” (2010) co-star Christian Bale as Dick Cheney. Weisz — whose surname, of course, is pronounced like “vice” — plays Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough in “The Favourite,” the right-hand woman of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) who deftly wielded her influence over the monarch’s decision-making.
Adams is currently in second place in our combined odds to win Best Supporting Actress, behind Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), while Weisz is in fifth, also trailing...
- 10/29/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Welcome to the latest installment in our regular Movies You May Have Missed series here on Nerdly, in which I highlight some of, what I think, are the best movies that have flown under the radar of many or have been “forgotten” in the intervening years since its release. This time round its the ridiculous comedy Crash Pad, which has been dumped directly onto VOD services here in the UK…
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Thomas Haden Church, Christina Applegate, Nina Dobrev | Written by Jeremy Catalino | Directed by Kevin Tent
Official Synopsis:
Stensland (Domhnall Gleeson), a hopeless romantic, thinks he’s found true love with an older woman (Christina Applegate), only to learn that she’s married and their encounter was merely an instrument of revenge against her neglectful husband (Thomas Haden Church). Initially out for blood, the husband finds himself strangely sympathetic to the romantic’s plight. He decides the best...
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Thomas Haden Church, Christina Applegate, Nina Dobrev | Written by Jeremy Catalino | Directed by Kevin Tent
Official Synopsis:
Stensland (Domhnall Gleeson), a hopeless romantic, thinks he’s found true love with an older woman (Christina Applegate), only to learn that she’s married and their encounter was merely an instrument of revenge against her neglectful husband (Thomas Haden Church). Initially out for blood, the husband finds himself strangely sympathetic to the romantic’s plight. He decides the best...
- 10/19/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Last season, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson ended a 26-year Oscar drought by becoming the first co-stars to be nominated in Best Supporting Actor since “Bugsy” stars Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley. But one category that’s never been hurting for co-star nominees is Best Supporting Actress. A whopping 34 films have produced multiple nominees in the category, and it very well looks like we’ll hit 35 next year if “The Favourite” stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz make the cut.
Now that Fox Searchlight has solidified Stone’s and Weisz’s placements in supporting, and Olivia Colman‘s in lead, the former two are in fourth and fifth place in our Oscar odds, behind Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Amy Adams (“Vice”) and Claire Foy (“First Man”). It would be the ninth time this century and the first time in seven years a pair of co-stars competed against each other.
Now that Fox Searchlight has solidified Stone’s and Weisz’s placements in supporting, and Olivia Colman‘s in lead, the former two are in fourth and fifth place in our Oscar odds, behind Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Amy Adams (“Vice”) and Claire Foy (“First Man”). It would be the ninth time this century and the first time in seven years a pair of co-stars competed against each other.
- 10/18/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Gold Derby can exclusively confirm that five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will compete as Best Supporting Actress for the 2019 Academy Awards. It had been speculated for months if her role in “Vice” would be lead or supporting. In fact, it was so uncertain that we have had her listed in both the lead and supporting categories until the studio could confirm.
The trailer for the long-awaited project from director and writer Adam McKay just dropped late last week. It stars Christian Bale as former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Adams as his wife Lynne. Others co-stars include Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, Tyler Perry as Colin Powell and Alison Pill and Lily Rabe as the Cheney daughters. McKay won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2015 film “The Big Short,” another comedic drama about real life events.
SEE2019 Emmy spotlight: Amy...
The trailer for the long-awaited project from director and writer Adam McKay just dropped late last week. It stars Christian Bale as former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Adams as his wife Lynne. Others co-stars include Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, Tyler Perry as Colin Powell and Alison Pill and Lily Rabe as the Cheney daughters. McKay won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2015 film “The Big Short,” another comedic drama about real life events.
SEE2019 Emmy spotlight: Amy...
- 10/8/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
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